Due on Thursday, 4/27/17
1) The April Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, on Thursday.
2) Your D2 (the first five pages) of your theme story was due today (Tuesday, 4/25). You will turn it in on Thursday, 4/27. Please take advantage of the opportunity to look it over some more, have someone else proofread it, add some more pages, etc. See previous blog entries for details and expectations.
You will turn in—at minimum—your D1 (edited by me), your D2 (proofread by both you and an adult), and your beautiful printed D2 on Thursday, 4/27. If you make any further changes, turn in all edited copies.
3) Visit the video of our church Variety Show a few weeks ago (See link below.) My son, Philip, was home from college and took advantage of the chance to participate. Begin the video at 25:45 (hit the play button, then slide the marker on the progress bar to 25:45) to watch just Philip's poetry recitation.
He is delivering the poem "Jabberwocky," a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll (also the author of Alice's Adevntures in Wonderland). Nonsense poems are those that use made-up words to convey meaning, and "Jabberwocky" is considered by many to be the greatest nonsense poem of all time. (In fact, the English words "galumph" and "chortle" are now considered perfectly acceptable words and appear in standard dictionaries, gifts from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" poem.) The words to the poem appear below. Read it, even though it will be tricky to understand. Remember, most of those words you don't know are made up! They could mean any number of things.
"Jabberwocky" is the poem Philip memorized and delivered to his Creative Writing class almost ten years ago for this same poetry recitation assignment. As you watch the video (from 25:45 to 29:15) take note of how Philip's delivery of the poem helps make the meaning clear, even though the words are nonsensical. Notice also that he took about three minutes to deliver this 7-stanza poem.
4) After you have watched the video, look at the poem (printed above) and decide what the rhyme scheme is. Also scan the poem and decide which meter you think it uses. Write this information down and bring it to class with you on Thursday, along with a list of your ten favorite nonsense words used in the poem and what you think they may mean.
5) Practice reciting the poem you've memorized! You should have the entire poem memorized by this Thursday. You will be reciting the poems in class beginning next week. You certainly don't have to act it out the way Philip did with "Jabberwocky," but you do need to deliver it with boldness and confidence. Practice!
2) Your D2 (the first five pages) of your theme story was due today (Tuesday, 4/25). You will turn it in on Thursday, 4/27. Please take advantage of the opportunity to look it over some more, have someone else proofread it, add some more pages, etc. See previous blog entries for details and expectations.
You will turn in—at minimum—your D1 (edited by me), your D2 (proofread by both you and an adult), and your beautiful printed D2 on Thursday, 4/27. If you make any further changes, turn in all edited copies.
3) Visit the video of our church Variety Show a few weeks ago (See link below.) My son, Philip, was home from college and took advantage of the chance to participate. Begin the video at 25:45 (hit the play button, then slide the marker on the progress bar to 25:45) to watch just Philip's poetry recitation.
He is delivering the poem "Jabberwocky," a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll (also the author of Alice's Adevntures in Wonderland). Nonsense poems are those that use made-up words to convey meaning, and "Jabberwocky" is considered by many to be the greatest nonsense poem of all time. (In fact, the English words "galumph" and "chortle" are now considered perfectly acceptable words and appear in standard dictionaries, gifts from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" poem.) The words to the poem appear below. Read it, even though it will be tricky to understand. Remember, most of those words you don't know are made up! They could mean any number of things.
Jabberwocky
Related Poem Content Details
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
4) After you have watched the video, look at the poem (printed above) and decide what the rhyme scheme is. Also scan the poem and decide which meter you think it uses. Write this information down and bring it to class with you on Thursday, along with a list of your ten favorite nonsense words used in the poem and what you think they may mean.
5) Practice reciting the poem you've memorized! You should have the entire poem memorized by this Thursday. You will be reciting the poems in class beginning next week. You certainly don't have to act it out the way Philip did with "Jabberwocky," but you do need to deliver it with boldness and confidence. Practice!
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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Th, 4/27: Josh (CWA); Katie (CWB)
Also, daily:
+ Read your (approved) reading log book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log calendar (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along.
+ Write in your gratitude journal daily, listing at least three things you are thankful for each day. When you have done so, place a small check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.
+ Read your (approved) reading log book for pleasure, aiming for at least 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log calendar (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along.
+ Write in your gratitude journal daily, listing at least three things you are thankful for each day. When you have done so, place a small check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.
+ Review one of your Scripture memory verses each day, such that you keep all of them fresh in your memory at all times and each verse gets reviewed at least once per week. You should be ready to recite any of the three verses you've memorized at any time.
NOTE: The April Reading Log will be due, signed by a parent, on Thursday, 4/27/17.
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